Candio has been a lot more active since play resumed

The post- dinner break lethargy often associated with poker tournaments doesn’t seem to be an issue here, as players are four-betting, shoving all-in, and getting involved in pots while they still can before the escalating blinds make it increasingly difficult to avoid getting all their chips in the middle.

We’ve already seen our first post-dinner casualty as Jason Senti hit the rail in seventh place when he lost a coin flip situation to Joseph Cheong in what is becoming this final table’s signature dramatic fashion.

Hands of the Hour:

Jason Senti Eliminated in Seventh Place ($1,356,720)

Jason Senti raised to 1,850,000 from the cutoff and Joseph Cheong made it 4,950,000 from the button. Senti responded with a four-bet shove all-in and Cheong called with TT and Senti showed AK. The KKQ flop gave Senti a huge advantage, but as we’ve seen so far this final table, that is not turning out to be a very good thing. The J on the turn gave Cheong a straight draw, but only a nine or a ten could help him, as an ace would bring Senti a full house. The river was none other than the 9 and Senti was the latest victim of a brutal and improbably river card that sent him to the rail.

As Senti bids his competitors farewell and good luck, his contingent of fans cheer him out of the Penn and Teller with their chant of “PBJaxx PBJaxx.”

Michael Mizrachi Keeps Four-betting

Action folded to Michael Mizrachi on the button and he raised to 2,125,000 with the blinds at 400,000/800,000 ante 100,000. Filippo Candio was in the big blind and made it 5,300,000 to go. Mizrachi refused to back down and raised it to 16,550,000. That was enough to scare Candio away, as he folded his hand and Mizrachi took the pot.

Mizrachi’s four-betting keeps working and he is now the only player besides Duhamel to have crossed the 60 million chip threshold today.

By the Numbers:

Chip Lead Changes: 2
Short Stack Changes: 1
Players Who Have Moved All-in Since Dinner: 3 (Filippo Candio twice, John Dolan, Jason Senti)
Post Dinner Break Four-Bets: 3. Filippo Candio four bet all-in early in the action, then got a taste of his own medicine when Mizrachi, who has been four-betting more frequently than most today, four-bet Candio preflop to put the Italian to a decision for most of his chips.  Then Senti met his demise when his four-bet all-in resulted in his elimination in seventh place.
Big Blinds in Play: As our friends at BLUFF Europe pointed out, once the blinds move up to 500,000/1,000,000, there will be only 220 big blinds in play on the table.

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